# “That Audacious Document”: Notes on the Declaration of Independence

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/that-audacious-document-notes-on-the-declaration-of-independence>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** August 6, 2014

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George H. Smith begins a series of essays on the Declaration of Independence by examining colonial reaction to its list of grievances.

[Originally published in essay form on November 8, 2011.](https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/excursions/audacious-document-notes-declaration-independence)

_Narrated by James Foster._